Symfony Lab 1: routing and views

Install symfony (using the first command shown, starting with wget...) and add the path to $PATH in your .bashrc, as indicated by the installation script.

The symfony command should now work.

Run the following command:

symfony new --webapp --version="6.*" symfony

From your project folder (for example symfony/)

Run:

symfony serve

And go to http://127.0.0.1:8000, you should see a welcome message.

Create a controller using:

symfony console make:controller

You can name it DefaultController, for example. Open the files src/Controller/DefaultController.php and templates/default/index.html.twig and look at the generated code. Go to the /default page to see the result.

Modify the index() action of DefaultController so that it is served at the / route (the website's home page), and displays another message.

Create a hello() action in DefaultController that responds to the /hello/{name} route and greets the first name given in the URL.

Add links on the home page to hello/Alice and hello/Bob, but do not use hard-coded links: use Twig's path() function so that even if the address changes, the links adapt

Use template inheritance so that the home page and the "hello" page have the same style (a bit of HTML/CSS), with only different content.